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Happy Meals for Adults
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Happy Meals for Adults |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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Laughing whiskey hugs the gentle man Rowing lateral, God’s Madison Avenue Gets through each hour, under a limbo stick Wedging missing pieces into best known myths Like a beggar with torch lights Giving his entire body to science Ambition cuts the birthday cake of wisdom Dropping fire out of the mouth of Jerusalem Waiting in line, mowing a lawn of coral sand Drinking camp coffee, reading the grounds Pasted to the walls of caves By Tibetan monks…who had Close Encounters? And lived to speak of it… What madness cuddles beside me? Incurable and sanitized, like pearly white window frames Breathing peace from bitter depths of unspoken shame Discovering iambics of summer’s school and free libraries Freshly baked bread worships “I can’t believe it’s not butter” While glass thickens on the eyes of hunger Bubble wrap dragging me toward some power of oils Grasping beliefs…without lifting voices About the designs of ourselves in tactical waves Voices of Greek athletes, lifting broken dolls To the Gods, weeping and afraid That History will never bury its battered corpse Refusing its invitation, glance from a table Filled with photographs of elderly diplomats Look…there, how water, cuts through bedrock Layered thoughts of shapes grow calligraphy Where past compiles, counterparts of Zen meditation Running with offspring…and the whimpers of infancy It is said, to save a child, is to save the world So I build a shrine over McDonald’s In honor of the new “Happy Meals” for adults Perhaps Heaven could be right here on Earth? |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
See?  Breakpoint. |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Wow...!!!! Wonderful writing! Eric |
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Pell Member
since 2001-09-16
Posts 134Pacific NW |
Now this is cool! Liked much. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
*big smile* |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
It is here, if we let it be. Your poetry is so unique -- your kitchen has implements like no other, and what you cook there has a flavor all its own. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Too cool for words!! 'nother-good-one! Lee J. JL  |
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